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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.In the final analysis the players could legally win and yet ruin themselves. The people who pay the bills are the owners and they are saying they can't continue as the present CBA was drawn.
Players monies are at or near the maximum they will ever be. Sooner of later Fan interest will shift elsewhere, and with it TV revenues. Imagine the problems when the pie shrinks, and most players are told their present contracts must be negotiated downward.
In the final analysis the players could legally win and yet ruin themselves. The people who pay the bills are the owners and they are saying they can't continue as the present CBA was drawn.
Players monies are at or near the maximum they will ever be. Sooner of later Fan interest will shift elsewhere, and with it TV revenues. Imagine the problems when the pie shrinks, and most players are told their present contracts must be negotiated downward.
The Lawyers will exercise the rules for Antitrust law, which never considered the needs of sports leagues and are legally indefensible. DeMaurice the lawyer wants to prove his is a tough guy, and Hubris will enable him to win a legal, but Pyhrric victory. The players union will sue and sue for constraint and win, every one of the victories, which makes the league less reasonable or interesting to the fans.
When wiser heads prevailed, MLB obtained an antitrust provision to accommodate the reasonable needs of a sports league. No one else has such a deal. Yes, the player's lawyers could win every legal battle, and ruin it for the present stars, present players, the marginal youthful ones, and tomorrows players too.
Although the Owners sign the checks, the Fans ultimately provide the funds, through TV watching or buying tickets. Without a competitive environment football is much more prone to contraction with the limited season providing fewer opportunities for revenues.
But in the short term, the Owners write the paychecks and they are no longer willing to write those paychecks. So the players lose.
Rosters will likely shrink down to 36 players or so, as they used to be, players will be expected to go back to two-way players, shortening their careers. Pensions and health plans will be terminated; and everyone will be out for themselves, in their personal services contracts.
Within a few years the small-city franchises will die, or create a series of minor/major leagues with graduation to the higher league for winners; and losers falling into the lesser leagues as soccer does, now.
Some successful businessmen like Kraft will say no thanks, and sell out. Other like Snyder will find no one to write about them, and leave too.
Eventually things will settle out, with a dozen teams; and each with a relative handful of players each, most of whom last only 2 or 3 years so the stars are limited to QBs and RBs.
What he is projecting is a league in which the player's enumerated issues in the lawsuit all go the players' way. I don't see how this gets settled purely in the courts with only a partial antitrust solution. So if the players do continue to win on appeal the owners will face the possibility of loss of the antitrust exemption, total player free agency from college thru career, and the destruction of the 32 team league as less wealthy owners and markets implode. Facing this, the owners will have to negotiate and hope that the NFLPA* agrees to something close to the 2010 status quo with only minor modifications.
This makes no sense, it was the owners who opted out of the CBA and there is little to no doubt that the players would happily agree to return to the one the owners opted out of. that's hardly the position of players looking to kill the league.
Or---the owners will realize they can't win in court and will sit down and create a deal that works for all of them with most if not all of the current structure intact.
The scenario you are predicting is extreme at a minimum and completely implausible as neither side is willing to completely kill the game that makes them all rich.
Ultimately cooler heads prevail, a deal gets done, and we see football for a long long time. that, imo, is how it will end and should end.
They opted out because they did not want to continue that deal.Oooooooooooops.
There goes his argument that the decertification is a sham.
Too bad the owners pushed it to this, they should never have opted out.
How do you figure? The players have made more than the owners, a lot more, for a long time. They get half the revenue. The owners get half the revenue, and then pay all of the expenses from their half. It is essentially impossible for the owners to make more than the players.The situation ends Football as we know it.
NOTE: THE OWNERS WILL STILL MAKE MONEY. MORE THAN THE PLAYERS.
When the TV contracts are gone, than it will be over. It would be a good job by the Union of taking a giant cr*p where the players eat and calling it victory.